Re: One Piece Chapter 774 Discussion / 775 Prediction
Yeah. Well if getting stabbed directly in the heart with no world class heart surgeon nearby (only one would have been Law) is a non fatal wound I will quit OP. Lol. Especially since Monet dying served to show us just how hardcore Doffy's crew is about keeping his secrets.
Oda structured the scene in a way to make it
appear as if Caesar had [fully] stabbed Monet's heart, but in actuality, he only managed to graze the "block of flesh". If you notice the scene of Caesar lying unconscious in the chapter following the one where he attacked Monet's heart, you notice that the item he used as a weapon is lying face up in the ground
away from Monet's heart (not lodged inside). Now why would that be the case?
I highly doubt Caesar used the item to stab the "heart", pulled it out and then proceeded to force it into the ground next to the heart before passing out. The most logical explanation is
as Caesar forced the item down onto the "block of flesh" containing Monet's heart, it only grazed the side of the "block of flesh" causing the "block of flesh" to slide away and subsequently the item Caesar was using as a weapon ended up being forced into the ground. The "block of flesh" seems to have the quality of being squishy, so it wouldn't be too surprising if the "block of flesh" slid forward as Caesar tried to stab it. As a result the item Caesar used got lodged into the ground as he passed out from exhaustion (and/or his injuries from Luffy).
One also has to wonder, if Oda had intended for Monet's character to die, why not show the weapon Caesar used to attack Monet's heart to be left lodged inside Monet's heart? Why go out of his way to illustrate the weapon stuck in the ground face-up away from her heart as if to convey that the majority of the force in Caesar's strike was absorbed by the ground and not Monet's heart? Oda obviously gave himself an out to avoid killing off a character.
It is extremely apparent that Oda dislikes killing off present time characters, but he still uses the danger of death to drive emotion in the story. Punk Hazard felt serious because of the threat of Shinokuni, but we all seen what happened in the end, the victims of Shinokuni were savable.
Even now in Dressrosa, the danger of Doflamingo in Dressrosa was an emotional driving point in wanting him to be defeated, but with Oda revealing that Princess Mansherry's ability is the Heal Heal Fruit, the threat of death and serious danger has been reduced to zero. None of the citizens on Dressrosa will be killed by the Donquixote Pirates now that Princess Mansherry is free and capable of healing them.
Unless Oda conveys a present time character death through a
chapter title or a
narration, we cannot be certain that he has killed off a character.